In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant famously differentiated the noumenal, or ideal, realm from the phenomenal or lived world. |
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Nietzsche rejected the Kantian distinction between a noumenal and phenomenal world. |
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The ultimate stage of Hua-yen emphasizes harmonious coexistence of particularities without necessarily foregrounding their noumenal aspect. |
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We may here distinguish between two kinds of reality, phenomenal or relative, and noumenal or absolute. |
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Though the noumenal holds the contents of the intelligible world, Kant claimed that man's speculative reason can only know phenomena and can never penetrate to the noumenon. |
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This is Wagner's great instantiation of Schopenhauer's world divided into noumenal reality and phenomenal appearance. |
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The term noumenal is preferred to the term numinous, since, as Lewis-Williams commented, the San had no sense of the holy or the sacred. |
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When Kant says that it is impossible to know anything about, or apply any categories to, the noumenal realm, he would seem to be doing just what cannot be done. |
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